Re: [Monotone-devel] mtn command, extension, and MIME type

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:30:09AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> I am willing to bet that many folk on this list have created an alias
> for the eight-lettered `monotone' command. I could see it being useful
> for monotone to start shipping a short symlink to the `monotone'
> command. I use `mt' myself, although this conflicts with the old
> magnetic tape command. I saw someone else on this list using `mtn',
> which, as far as I know, does not conflict with any other utility.

We could also just rename the executable, if that made people happier.
There's nothing particularly sacred about the name, and it probably is
a bit off-putting when all the competition is 3-letters-or-less.

At one point I suggested "m" as being untaken by any standard tools,
but people didn't seem to go for that :-).

I think this is one of those things where hey, if there's consensus,
we can just do it.  Straw poll?

> On a related topic, a standard file name extension and MIME type for
> monotone databases would be a plus. I use .mt for this purpose, but if
> the above mtn symlink is popular, I'd suggest .mtn.

Sounds reasonable to me.  "db" is definitely sorta a lame extension.

There's some wackiness to MIME types...
   http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20440
I guess if someone wants to figure out what's involved here, go for
it...

-- Nathaniel

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